Back-band hook.



A. PONDER BACK BAND HOOK'. 1

APPLICATION FILED AUG-6. 1911.

Famed Feb. 26,1918.

Ukraine-stains rarnivr rricn AIJIJIE PONDER, OF EAST POINT, GEORGIA, ASSIGNC'R T0 COUCH BROS. MANUFAC- TUBING 00., OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, A CORPORATION OF GEORGIA.

BACK-BAND HOOK.

g g ng q) Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1918.

Application filed August 6, 1917. Serial No. 184,682

To all whom it may concern e it known that 1. Armin Poxonn, a citizen of the United tf'ltate and residing at East Point, Fulton county, fate of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Tinnovements in Back-Band Books, of which the following a specification.

This invention relates to buckles, particularly to buckles having hooks attached thereto and used in connection with back bands, being known as back band hooks.

The object of the invention is to provide such a buckle which of great strength and durability, yet which is simple, light in weight, and easily nninipulated.

The invention will be fully described in the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of the buckle attached to a strip or band of fabric.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the separated members of the buckle, and

Fig. 3 is asection along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

The body portion 10 of the buckle is in the shape of an elongated rectangle with a lateral extension on one side which supports the hook 11 adapted to hold the chain. This hook is integral with the body portion 10 and is preferably formed by stamping up a portion thereof. The free end of the hook is in the plane of the body 10 and at or near the center of an opening 12 in the tongue, which is considerably wider than the hook itself. This arrangement allows the link of a chain to he slipped ver the hook, on which it is then held, with but little danger of its coming off.

The rectangular portion of the base 10 which comprises the buckle proper, has a long slot 18 therein along one edge of which is the upwardly extending flange 1%. This flange is also integral with the base 10 and is comprised of the material punched up there from when the slot is formed.

The ends of the slot and flange are diagonal, the upper edge of the flange extending beyond and overhanging the lower edge, and the flange is inclined to the base with its upper edge overhanging the slot 13.

The bar 15 which cooperates with the base 10 to hold a strip of fabric A, is slightly longer than the flange and has lateral pro- JGCtiOllS 16 atits ends which pass under the overhanging or projecting port-ions 17 of the flange let, and behind the flange, so that the bar cannot escape entirely from the body 10. Due to the manner in which it is secured thereto however, it has a limited motion toward or from the body 10 and toward or from the flange let, which allows a strip of fabric to be easily looped around the bar in attaching the device thereto.

In securing the buckle to a strip of fabric, the end of the strip'is passed from the back of the body 10, through slot 13, around the bar 15 and again passed out through slot 13. When weight is placed upon the hook 11, as when a trace chain is fastened thereon, the strip of fabric tends to pull through the buckle. The pull of the fabric exerted against the back edge of the bar 15,0ver which it makes a sharp bend, forces the bar forward against that part of the strip of fabric passing between its forward edge and the flange 1% and the strip is thus securely held, due to this clamping action, and due to the friction of the fabric against the bar at its back edge.

The forwardly extending portions 17 of bar 15 prevent the bar from turning under the pull of the fabric.

To change the position of the buckle on the strip, for instance, to raise it, any de sired length of the strip above the buckle is passed through the slot from back to front and the loop thus formed in front is taken up by pulling on the strip below and in the rear of the buckle.

The buckle is strong yet light and easy to make and because of the manner in which it frictionally holds the fabric without the aid of teeth, the fabric is not injured even when great weight is placed upon the hook. I

Although I have shown and described my invention in use as a back band hook, it may be used upon suspenders, or in other ways.

What I claim is A buckle comprising a body portion having a hook secured thereto and having a slot therein, a flange integral with said body portion and extending transversely therefrom along one edge of said. slot, projections on the ends of said flange, and a bar having lateral extensions passing around the ends of said flange under the projections thereon, whereby it is held to the base portion, the

bar being movable through a limited distance toward or from said body portion and through a limited distance toward or from said flange, said bar being adapted to cooperate With said body portion and said flange to friotionally engage a strip of fabric 10 passing through said slot and looped around said bar.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ALLIE PONDER.

Gen! of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, I). G. 

